'Long Story Short' to lead off S.D. Rep's season

It coincides with the publication of “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber” from The Library of America, a publisher dedicated to issuing enduring authors in lasting editions. And one of the events will be a signing with the book's editor, Robert Polito, and Farber's wife and collaborator on his later writings, painter Patricia Patterson, who lives and works in Leucadia.

There will also be a panel on Farber's life and writings. The illustrious list of panelists includes filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin (Farber's colleague at UCSD), cultural critic Greil Marcus, film historian David Thomson, writer Robert Walsh, film critic/archivist Kent Jones as well as Polito and Patterson.

Rounding out the celebration will be a screening of one of Farber's favorite movies, to be announced on the opening day of the festival. (It's a Telluride Festival tradition for its program to be unveiled on opening day.)

Tom Luddy, co-founder of the festival and a producer at the Coppolas' American Zoetrope studio since 1979, says, “One of Telluride's greatest moments was Manny Farber on stage at the Sheridan Opera House in conversation with James Stewart on the subject of the Westerns of Anthony Mann. I treasure my many memories of Manny, and consider him one of the great American writers of the 20th century, as well one of the finest painters of his era.”